Hi everyone, Arnold, Susan, and I get a lot of emails to our list from nonmembers.Some is just spam and we discard it. Sometimes people have questions and need help and we encourage those people to join and ask their questions to the group rather than trying to answer them ourselves. Some do, most do not. Other messages are replies to the archives, but meant for the person who wrote the email they are responding to. If we can figure out who they wanted we forward the message, and if not , we invite them to join the list and ask their question hoping the right person will respond. The other mail we get comes from people who are responding to a thread in the archives and wanting to provide information about the thread even if the discussion took place a long time ago. We got one of those today about Scilla maderensis. I am passing it on to the group. One question from me has to do with Autonoe which is one of the genera in the Scilla split. I see that Catarina spelled it Autonoë. Should we be spelling it that way on the wiki? When you look in IPNI they don't seem to use symbols. I'm sure there are members of our group who can explain about this. Mary Sue Hello, This species is endemic from the Madeira archipelago. It is in extinction and so it is not easy to find it in the Island, BUT it is preserved in the Botanical garden of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in the faculty of Pharmacy of Lisbon, Portugal, and in the Garcia da Orta garden, a garden made for the EXPO 98 in Lisbon. I have made the phytochemical and pharmacological study of the bulbs (my PhD Thesis). The species proved to have substances with pharmacological action on the heart and on vas deferens, and, if you want, you can see some of this information if you search by: Scilla maderensis Autonoë madeirensis (the new synonymy) C Dias Dias C Catarina Dias I hope you find some of the information you wanted Have a good day Catarina Dias